Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — A California Mining Story. [ARTICLE]

A California Mining Story.

Not many miles from Shasta City is the gulch of which the following mining story is told. It is a pretty deep ravine, with rocks shfewing all the way up the sides. Gold in paying quantities had been found along the stream, but it seemed to disappear a few feet from the channel. One day, whilst a gang of busy men were toiling in the stream, a stranger, evidently green at mining, came along and leaned on ragged elbows to watdi, with protruding eyes, the result of their toil. The miner nearest him took out a five-dollar nugget, and anxiety overcame the greenhorn. “ S-a-a-y,” he asked, “where can I go to diggin’ to find it like that?” The hardy miner stopped his work, and giving the wink to all the boys, so that the joke should not be lost, pointed up on the barren rocks where no gold had ever been found. “ Ye see that rough lookin’ place?” “ Yes, yes," said the new hand. “Well, that it is rich. Jes ye stake out a claim, an go ter work, an when we finish here we’ll come up, too.” Then the new hand thanked the honest miner; and the boys all grinned appreciation of the joke. That afternoon they was a solitary figure picking away on the slope, and every time the miners looked up they roared with laughter. But about the next day the greenhorn struck a pocket, and took out something like SBO,OOO in a few minutes. Then, Innocent to the last, he treated all around, and thanked the miner who sent him jro there, and took his money and went down into the valley and bought him a farm. Then the unhappy miners arose, leaving their old claims end dotted that hillside for days. But there were no more pockets anywhere. The whole thing reads just like a traditional fairy story. But then I saw the gulch- Much more unbelievable things have happened tn the mines.—Ban Francisco Bulletin. - A PVNBTRR challenged a sick man’s vote at a city election on the ground' that he was an ill legal voter. ■ Ths annoyance occasioned by the continual crying of the baby, at once ceases when the cause is (as it should be) promptly removed by using Dr- Bull’s Baby Syrup. Trice, 25 cent* pv bottle.